Source: Adobe/Casimiro Four crypto tokens sold by Do Kwon and his co-founded company, Terraform Labs, has been qualified as unregistered securities. The tokens in question are TerraUSD (UST), LUNA, wLUNA, and Mirror Protocol (MIR), according to a recent summary judgment ruling by Judge Jed Rakoff of the U.S. Court for the Southern District of New…
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Source: Pixabay / David Mark Lee Hsien Loong, the prime minister of Singapore, has warned his social media followers regarding the use of deepfake videos that use his voice and image to promote cryptocurrency scams. In posts made across various platforms including X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn, and Facebook, Loong urged his followers to exercise caution…
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The rise of altcoins in 2023 has been fuelled by huge resurgence across the crypto market from the lows of 2023, but what are the top 10 performers and crypto growth stories of the year? Lets dig in. Illustrating the crypto growth across 2023, the total global market cap for all crypto assets (11,849) across…
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Source: Adobe / Александр Поташев US prosecutors are reluctant to pursue a second trial in the case involving Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO of the now-defunct crypto exchange FTX. Bankman-Fried, who was convicted last month for embezzling funds from FTX customers, seems likely to avoid further prosecution on additional charges, according to a letter submitted to a…
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Source: AdobeStock / Wayhome Studio This is your weekly digest of top crypto news from Cryptonews.com, followed by a collection of 20 hand-picked crypto jokes. __________ This week in crypto: the Bitcoin ETF countdown has begun, representatives from at least seven companies seeking to launch ETFs met with the US SEC officials, Market Haven said…
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Top Crypto Gainers Today on DEXTools – CAT, POLAR, WHAT Blue-chip cryptocurrency markets have been chopping all over the place on Friday, amid a wave of option expiries on the final day of trade of the year for traditional asset markets (crypto markets never shut, so the final day of trade of the year will…
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Cryptocurrency markets are unsurprisingly choppy on the final Friday of 2024, as massive option expiries trigger waves of unpredictable buy and sell pressure as market players hedge themselves and reposition ahead of the new year. Bitcoin options worth around $11 billion expired today, as per data presented by The Block, a new all-time high. Bitcoin…
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Source: Avalanche The Avalanche Foundation, the nonprofit organization overseeing the development of the Avalanche Network, aims to allocate its $100 million non-fungible token (NFT) incubator fund to purchase memecoins. The move is part of the foundation’s “Culture Catalyst” initiative, which was initially launched in March 2022 to support promising NFT projects on the network. The Avalanche…
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Source: Jason Hafso / Pexels Canadian cryptocurrency exchange Catalyx has temporarily suspended trading and withdrawals on its platform after discovering a security breach that it suspects may involve one of its employees. The exchange said it believes that this breach has resulted in the loss of a portion of the crypto assets held on behalf…
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Adobe Stock / JorgeEduardo Decentralized exchange (DEX) PancakeSwap has introduced a proposal to significantly decrease the maximum supply of its native ecosystem token, CAKE. The developers seek to reduce the token supply from 750 million to 450 million, aiming to better align it with the current circulating supply of 388 million. In an official announcement…
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